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Ad Rotator Control for Windows Phone 7

Thursday, June 16th, 2011

I’ve finished creating an ad rotator control for Windows Phone 7 and have published it along with the source code here: Windows Phone 7 Ad Rotator on CodePlex. I originally created the control so that I could dynamically configure ads appearing on Flashlight 7 based on ad culture. In the US I normally prefer using [...]

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When using Silverlight or Flash to fetch data from other domains one often runs into cross-domain access restrictions. For security reasons in order to access data from different domains, the remote server explicitly has to allow this by defining a crossdomain.xml (or, for Silverlight, clientaccesspolicy.xml is good as well). If this file cannot be found [...]

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A great disk storage usage monitoring tool

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

It’s quite a common problem that disk space shrinks dramatically and something has to be deleted. But what are those big files taking up the free space? With Windows you simply need some kind of tool to get a picture of disk usage. And the best tool I’ve found to do the job so far [...]

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